London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Islington 1860

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Islington, Parish of St Mary]

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TABLE II.

NEW CASES OF DISEASE COMING UNDER TREATMENT DURING THE FOUR WEEKS ENDING SATURDAY, THE 25th DAY OF AUGUST, 1860, AT THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS IN ISLINGTON.

Workhouse.Infant Poor House.Out-patient Paupers.Islington Dispensary.Holloway Dispensary.Pentonville Convict Prison.London Fever Hospital.Total.
Small Pox....521....8
Chicken Pox....2........2
Measles....1945....28
Scarlatina....6222..939
Hooping Cough....915....15
Croup................
Diarrhœa....67926....119
Dysentery....1........1
Cholera................
Ague....114....6
Continued Fever....6..8..14*28
Puerperal Fever................
Rheumatic Fever....211....4
Erysipelas....512..19
Diphtheria................
Sorethroat or Tonsillitis....1357....25
Pyaemia................
Bronchitis and Catarrh51792625131150
Pneumonia....111..14
Pleurisy....1........1
Delirium Tremens....1........1
Insanity..............1
Carbuncle................
All other diseases2613335252194211156
Total33255157832671361597

* Three of these were " Typhus." and eleven" Typhoid."